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By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that. Jill McCorkle
Freedom Thoughts You World Opportunity Freedom Of Speech Build Before Think Negatives Say Hatch Potential Take Ideas Around Limiting Lot Denying Even Expression Away Speech
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. John Updike
Venomous Ungrateful President States Blind Client Advocate Sir Act United United States
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. Joseph Conrad
Life Nothing Enticing More Than Sea
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog. Joseph Conrad
Great World Fog Blessed Rule Accomplished Achievements Warm Who Great Achievements
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. Joseph Conrad
Life Faith Strength Nature Man Together Grass Earth Draws Blade He Spot His Whence Which Land Rooted Each
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck. Joseph Heller
Good Injustice Bad Luck Simple Luck Way Destiny Bad Good Thing Call Accept Going Your Treachery Thing
The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way. Joyce Carol Oates
Relationship Parents Tremendously Way Scarcely Rational Daughters Powerful Between Mothers Any Children
People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections. Khaled Hosseini
People Find Most Redemption Unusual Human Meaning Connections
Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world. Khaled Hosseini
Thoughts World Feelings Ocean Own Every Universe Everyone Our Way Crippled Ourselves Inside Insights Individual His Truly Walking Person Inability Street Her Present
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. Louisa May Alcott
Good Great You Genius Will Long Power Goodness Virtues Danger Gifts Finest Charm Spoils Conceit Talent Real Overlooked Little Them Modesty Much Many Need
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. Margaret Atwood
Man Woman Leader Think Born Powerful Powerful Man Anomaly Still
A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. Margaret Atwood
You Divorce Like Survive Less
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in? Margaret Atwood
You People Problem Every Faces Stick Fit Same Just Literary Who Utopia
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. Margaret Drabble
Rare Seen Pleasure Misery Being
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Parenting Parents Faults Instilled Readily Least Forgive Children Them Themselves
Privilege is the greatest enemy of right. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Enemy Greatest Privilege Right
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth. Mario Puzo
World Money Wealth Power Earth More Only Than Children
One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush. Marquis de Sade
Dangerous Old Too Shame Never Than Blush Grown
All universal moral principles are idle fancies. Marquis de Sade
Moral Moral Principles Principles Idle Fancy Universal
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. Miguel de Cervantes
Knowledge You Yourself Will Vanity Preserve
That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not. Miguel de Cervantes
Love Nature Women To Love Them
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! Nathaniel Hawthorne
Heart Dark Own Other Self Inexorable Dungeon Jailer
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Great Great Deal Poet Think Ought Statues Find More Poetry Highest Nobody Merit Pictures Look Read Deal Than Artist Cannot Them Who Expressed Actually
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness World Other Possibly Find Dreaming Follow Some Object Chase Pursuit Attained Never Leads Make Without Caught Very May Us
The reason nobody investigates the men who are trading off our freedoms for private enrichment is that they are the very ones who are doing the investigating. Nelson Algren
Men Our Enrichment Investigating Nobody Freedoms Trading Doing Private Off Very Reason Who
I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. Norman Mailer
Impossible Mind Become Secret Ability Had Combinations Quick Maximum Hold Sanity Grasp
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